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The $30,000 bequest : and other stories
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- by Mark Twain ; illustrated
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- English
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- New York ; London : Harper & Brothers, 1906
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- iv, 4 unnumbered pages, 522 pages, 2 unnumbered pages (last blank), 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
- OCLC
- ocm06129271
- State 1 (no advertisement on copyright p.). Cf. BAL.
- Bound in red V cloth; stamped in gold.
- Photographic frontispiece and plates facing p. 66, 320, 396, 416, 432, 450 and 512 signed by W.T. Smedley, C.D. Weldon and F. Luis Mora. Illustrations on p. 172, 176, 179, 181 and 183 signed by A.L.
- BAL 3492
- Johnson, M. de V. Bibl. Mark Twain (Rev.), p. 85.
- The $30,000 bequest -- A dog's tale -- Was it heaven? or hell? -- The Californian's tale -- A helpless situation -- A telephonic conversation -- Edward Mills and George Benton: a tale -- Saint Joan of Arc -- The five boons of life -- The first writing-machines -- Italian without a master -- Italian with grammar -- A burlesque biography -- General Washington's negro body-servant -- Wit inspirations of the "two-year-olds" -- An entertaining article -- A letter to the secretary of the treasury -- Amended obituaries -- A monument to Adam -- A humane word from Satan -- Introduction to "The new guide of the conversation in Portuguese and English" -- Advice to little girls -- Post-mortem poetry -- A deception -- The danger of lying in bed -- Portrait of King William III -- Does the race of man love a lord? -- Eve's diary -- The invalid's story -- The captain's story -- Mark Twain: a biographical sketch-- In memoriam -- The belated Russian passport -- Two little tales -- Diplomatic pay and clothes -- Extracts from Adam's Diary -- The death disk -- A double-barrelled detective story